[Alpine-info] Alpine crashing

[Sean C. Farley]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:


> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote:

>

>>> (gdb) bt

>>> #0  0x285ac55b in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2

>>> #1  0x285a4eec in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2

>>> #2  0x2840d450 in ?? ()

>>> (gdb)

>>> 

>>> Not that I know what to do with this information :)  If there is 

>>> some bug in the threading it is way over my head...

>> 

>> Threads on FreeBSD 6.x used KSE (M:N threads) and threads on FreeBSD 

>> 7.x are 1:1.  What does that mean for you you may ask.  It means that 

>> some issues were fixed by moving to the simpler 1:1 threads that now 

>> exist in 7.x.  I recommend, if you have permission, that you build 

>> Alpine from ports with the thread option disabled:

>> 

>> 1. cd /usr/ports/mail/alpine && make config

>> 2. Set THREADS to off in the menu.

>> 3. make clean

>> 4. make deinstall install clean

>> 

>

> I have to admit, I am pretty excited about a possible solution!  Just 

> rebuilt it and so far so good ;)


Please let us know if it works or not after a decent testing period, so 
a comment, at the least, can be placed in the port warning about 
possible issues with running Alpine with the 6.x line.  Also, note what 
version of FreeBSD you are using.  For example, 6.3 STABLE or RELEASE. 
For all I know, 6.4 may have had a fix for the issue you have.

Sean
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